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(1853-1937) Writer. Robert Underwood Johnson was born in Washington, D. C., and died in New York. He worked for Century Magazine for about forty years. He was the father of novelist Owen McMahon Johnson.

Full Name

Robert Underwood Johnson

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1853

BIRTH

Robert Underwood Johnson was born in Wahsington, D. C., in 1853.

1873

OTHER

Johnson began working for Century Magazine in 1873, was associate editor from 1881 until 1909, and editor from 1909 until 1913.

1887

LITWORK

Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War, 4 Volumes


Editor, with C. C. Buel.

1892

LITWORK

The Winter Hour and Other Poems
New York: The Century.

Collection of poetry.

1897

LITWORK

Songs of Liberty and Other Poems
New York: The Century.

Collection of poetry.

1902

LITWORK

Poems
New York: The Century.

Collection of poetry.

1910

LITWORK

Saint Gaudens: An Ode


Third edition.

1914

LITWORK

Saint Gaudens: An Ode


Fourth edition.

1916

LITWORK

Poems Of War and Peace


Collection of poetry.

1917

LITWORK

Italian Rhapsody and Other Poems of Italy


Collection of poetry.

1920

LITWORK

Collected Poems, 1881-1919
New Haven: Yale University Press.

Collection of poetry.

1923

LITWORK

Remembered Yesterdays
Boston: Little, Brown.

Collection of poetry.

1937

DEATH

Robert Underwood Johnson died in New York in 1937.

1937

INTERMENT

Robert Underwood Johnson is interred in Stockbridge Cemetery in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

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